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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone ... nutrition, get the rest you need, and stay hydrated (especially in the brutal

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  "]basics of cooking,[/annotation] but it's very easy to get caught up in the ... way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... constants in all of these recipes, not to be confused with chemical formulas

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... deprived butt that week. Those of you who choose to come here in the future

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... forgot to turn in until I was almost back in my room. That meant I had to ... was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  made me admissible to MIT — I started getting things wrong in the ... try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... sufficient to get me through secondary school and my undergraduate education

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  pernicious myth."]connection between body and mind[/annotation] to keep both in ... couldn't deadlift inside unless I wanted to end up in my landlady's living ... in Bitcoin because he thought the banks were going to fail. Now I had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... ’t come to MIT to relax or even to hang out. I came here to learn, and in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , some alumni actually look forward to getting calls from us because they ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that ... , innate cleverness. I know that I did not get in by some fluke. The truth

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a ... is one thing that all students admitted to MIT have in common. And that ... . On our What To Do In High School page, we say this of our application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... [/caption] Throughout high school I was often lost in confusion. I like to think about ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... to immerse herself in completely new cultures and environments. It ... Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... just to go ahead and be honest with them (well, you should be honest in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ... things I didn’t know I was interested in. I wanted to learn about all of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  MIT students - but we all go to MIT. Being in touch with friends with ... . I had close friends who didn't get in - people I knew were just as ... on track to great things in the astronomy world. I think that coming to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow ... guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which would to track Planetary orbits and pinpoint a planet's location in sky

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  ways—which, as I get older, I think is the key to changing The World in ... remain by Celena C. '12 Don’t forget to check in with yourself by Jenny X ... intergenerational in a way that the day-to-day blogs can never be, by the very nature

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... .” Behind the caution tape two people are having a heart-to-heart in the dip ... convert’s hair. I get to ride the Big Flipper at Next House and sharpie my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015